Definition of "preluding" [preluding]

• Present participle of prelude. (verb)

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• "They included "preluding" -- that is, offering an improvised beginning to a work or movement."
• "Forth now, Erato! and I will unfold who were the kings, what the tides of circumstance, how it was with ancient Latium when first that foreign army drew their fleet ashore on Ausonia's coast; I will recall the preluding of battle."
• "But this operation should not be performed in presence of the public; and, moreover, every instrumental noise -- every kind of preluding between the acts -- constitutes"